Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The Philadelphia Negro is the first major sociological study of an African American community ever published in the United States.

2. Du Bois largely ignored demographic data when performing research in the Seventh Ward for his work The Philadelphia Negro.

3. One of the strengths of Du Bois’s study is that he completed 5,000 surveys and interviews with residents of the Seventh Ward.

4. Du Bois systematically sets out the specific social consequences of prejudice and discrimination within The Philadelphia Negro.


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE

Sociology

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